Uma Musume Pretty Derby: All YOU need to Know! Full Breakdown

There are like six gachas basically. That's a lot. That's really interesting because they have paid only gachas. So what they have here is pretty much like two offers like those are kind of offers basically because you have one SSR guarantee for temple but I cannot I cannot buy it because I have only free crystals. You need paid crystals, like paid hard currency, of course, which is never going to happen on your account. Anyway, so they have this here and it's kind of similar to Wars games like Genshin. It's 4 a.m. Jacks with the two and a half gamers. The midnight crew talking UAS and game design too. Mat feeling shaku bringing the insight. We're rocking those vibes till the early daylight master eyes on the prize. Tracking data through the cyerspace skies. Feeling stacks colors like a wizard in disguise.

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I'm Yeah, I mean, so I would suggest Well, sgest. I would say like this is going to be just like a solo episode. Most probably. I'm here just for Yeah, I'm here just for the for the ls. No, but honestly, I'm here to to actually get a sense of why should I play this game and why Jakob is so excited about this. And he actually said yesterday like this is the one of the best game he ever played. So, I just want to know why. And we go through a lot of stuff. So, please buckle up. Yeah, jump on the horse and come with us. Oh, hello. Hello there. I didn't see you. Thank you very much for coming to this episode. Uh it's brought to you by our sponsors, PVX Partners, the simplest and most effective credit line for marketing. If you're scaling your business uh and need funding, here's the deal. With PVX Partners, you can grow your game easily and your business. There's no equity dilution. You can

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5,000 marketing teams already scaling with streaming TV. Visit vibe.co to get started. That's vibe.co. Join them and thank you very much for joining us for this special episode. Now, let's get back to it. Thank you. As as Buck Lab has said, like it's pretty much like we know that this this episode will be again one of those episodes that like Yeah, people all five people. I don't really care to be honest because this is this is just like hands down the best Rog light game I ever played. period. Like I don't think there's there there's a better one. I think people are offputed because of the visual and because of you know all the Japanese kind of very local. Everything's pretty much Japanese and they don't really care about even the western release is pretty much the same just translated. So let's be honest. Yeah, that's fine. It's okay. But it keeps it integrity. So that's there. But yeah, I think and people should understand that this is not

something to be trifled with because this game is one of the biggest games out there and that that's why we're talking about it. For those who want to really check, I think maybe I can dig it out during the time as Mate will be talking about UA Zingga specifically small giant already tried to copy this game. Where is it? Where is it now? Nowhere near the It's nowhere near. It was called Char Champions. It was exactly this kind of a game play. But of course without the waifuss, so we always talk about that one. But yeah, before we jump to the game, big disclaimer. This game doesn't work on emulators at all. None of my emulators work. So this is what? So this is actually Google Play Games beta. Yes. I was like, very cool. We won't be able to record this game. If you see Google Android for PC. Yeah. This is this is and you know why it doesn't work? Because of anti-che.

Even better. I mean it's almost like Superstell games. Yeah. Yeah. So that's very that's how it works. But unfortunately I was able to make it work on this one. So that's great. But if you're trying uh to replicate what we usually do, you can't. So you can play it only on this. But this is exactly the same version that you play on your phone, right? Yeah. It's connected the same. Seamless, right? Yeah. Seamless. Exactly. So that's perfect. So this out of the way, what we're actually going to do, we're going to start building up that argument why we should play this, why this is so good. And we're going to start from the really beginning because as I said, mostly people don't even understand what this is about once they see it because seems like some random waifu game that's like making so much more money. But because we always always joked about like horse girls, like what the [ __ ] is that? Yeah. What does it even mean? Yeah, we we'll get there. We'll get there everywhere. And once you see it, you understand that like whoever did this put so much heart and dedication into it. This like you won't believe it. So let's go.

Once you see, you can't unsee. Yeah. Exactly. So let's start with the big numbers. So we talking about those uh Umaamus was released in 2021 in February in Japan and is one of those typical Japanese big giants that are making 95 plus% revenue in Japan which like they're living comfortably in their Japan bubble and they're completely okay with this. This is exception because there's like 4% South Korea like I mean come on. Yeah, come on. So that's there. Uh but yeah, and this was doing like 70 million 72 million launch month revenue basically in Japan. Yeah, in Japan only. In Japan only. And it's still doing comfortably something like 10 to like spikes on like 30 million per those are events definitely like gotas but yeah 10 million a month like stable. So it's it's still there. Yeah, that's there. Regarding the downloads, maybe you see that there's

some like few numbers missing here, but this is the reality that you see here. It's not. So, it's I think it's more than two. They officially said it's 2.3 billion actually. That's that's the official what they said. Not not sensitive estimate and it's 16 million downloads. So, let that sink in. If you look actually if I just sort it here and just pull in the you the western release of all of these apps here which means like how much is actually grossing in the west. It did during the Friday last week it did uh 300k and now it's going back to something like 100 or something. I don't really expect as I fear that this game will do like any good in the west. It's just that it will be there for the core fans of the franchise that are still like you know this is US revenue mostly. This is uh what what was the filter here? I think something like yeah 72% is US revenue. Yeah this is this is not the

same thing that happened with the puzzle and dragons that we saw there the puzzle and dragon zero which was like 96% Japanese revenue for the for the new one. So this is not the case but still like yeah the I guess one thing is the game's complexity and the other thing is the offputting visual to like a lot of other people visual is a problem honestly I think it's a little bit of a problem because the problem with their specific style is that it's a lot of time like with any genre it's there are different archetypes of women and this is very close to that like lolly visual which is like very young girls usually if you have there's like baifu games like those looks like adult women actually like you know some of these ones this is much younger which could be really offputting to some people but again that's what we need to deal with that what uh they decided and it works in Japan it works in Japan yeah it works for everybody this goes especially as

our favorite discussion this game has one of the highest revenue per downloads on the planet obviously which is something like 120. But it's still nowhere near to our favorite game which is Dragon Quest War, guys. Okay. Which I just put here just so know which is doing 200 or something. Yeah. Yeah. But look at Yeah. Like way less on 6 million download. Those are all your friends. It's all your friends. So, so this is like a Pokemon Go Dragon Quest version in Japan only. Just saying. So, we get this out of the bat. Okay. So, what are we talking about? Derby Owners Club. So, there's this game that we first need to talk about in order to continue talking about Ubamus. So, there's this game. You can go on Viki check it. It's called Derby Owners Club released. That was before Sega was named Sega and

was made maker. Just saying. and how it actually looks. It was arcade machines of course because like that that's was there and it was horse racing and if you look at the mechanics of and the stuff that's in the game it's very very close actually to what Uma Musuma is because you are basically training your horse between the races. You are also the jockey here which is a big change that Uma did all these other things like giving it food. You see all those statistics and stuff that we'll see soon. This is basically the game they they took the main idea from. Yeah. But but here instead of horses is actually horse girls. Here here's actual horses. Not here. No, but in Umaamus. We'll get to the horses part. That's even better to be honest. Like I think they've done it even better than actual horses. I'll show you why. So yeah, this goes pretty much on and I just want to show you the game play itself.

Yeah, it's very very like similar. There's the game play. You see that there's the button. So, you can actually press the button and do stuff with it to kind of move the horse or like push it to go faster or not not push it at all. So, there's a little bit of active element. It's not inus. Um is completely autoplay. I don't. Yeah. Which is I think the right choice there for mobile. Yeah. Just saying. So whoever is kind of interested like yeah this is the game uh that they took the main idea from because it's the training rog light loop that that's there. Moving on. So this is the other important part that I wanted to show you. All the girls are specifically designed to the last detail on actual horses from Japan. All actual horses all of them. So here you see the photo of actual jockeyies and the horses with their real names. They were named

exactly like this really all agreed. This is licensed. Okay. This is literally licensed. That's why I wanted to ask. So they all agreed that they will be part of umamus. And if you see the girls and like how they resemble the horses, it's to the last detail. So for instance, girls with silver hair are usually white horses or part of the horse is white. girls with that one string of white. Where is it? Like for instance here. Or you could see it here on Grass Wander because the horse had a string of white on his head. You see the clothes are basically the same. Yeah. Like for instance these yellow things on Auroric. Yeah. It's the same. So they try to be as authentic as possible. So all of the girls are pretty much based on real horses which gives them a lot of you know tribute and pretty much uh authenticity. So this is not something like random

stuff and because we're using actually the I guess the biggest whole racing game in Japan anyway. So now you see why it clicks so well in in in the same setup. Okay. So let's move to the actual game and talk about more about the design and the mechanics. why this is so good and why like this whole thing kind of works. So I think the one of the closest games to this regarding the rog light setups would be Rogue Legacy. If you go on Steam and check that one out because usually Rogite games start from scratch and then you have some progression move on. There's the difference between Rogue Like and Rogite. Like is the one you really start from scratch and you don't No, no progression is transferred. Rog light is like progression is transferred and you build upon it and can gets better and better. But you don't really see games that utilize their previous runs which is happening here because in Rogue Legacy what's happening you have a

character you do like whatever it's a action platformer he dies and your other character inherits his traits as a son or as something. So it actually matters what was your previous run and that's also what's happening here at Uma Musu because Uma Musu is using the your previous runs to the limit. Like I haven't seen these mechanics. I haven't seen this kind of gameplay ever in rogike games. I really like rogike games and like I think this is the best of them. And it doesn't matter if you're offputed by whatever you see. If you're a game designer, you should play it and you should now that it's translated into English deconstruct Uma Musum and see how it works because again I still think it's a matter of time until somebody takes it, simplifies it, reskins it or pretty much recolors it as it should be and we have another empires and puzzles doing 20 million a month. That's what I think will actually happen. The attempt that was done by Small

Giant, I think it was good but missing the rifles. Yeah. Yeah. It likes the idea that they went straight against horse racing again, which isn't that popular here in the west because they, you know, they didn't have the real horses and all these things that that Umamusuma has. Probably they should have changed the team also and adjusted to something different. But what's the something different or you just call it could be RPG like you know does doesn't need to be horse racing, could be RPG or some kind of whatever like you can do different things with it. dogs racing could be could be tennis I don't know doesn't matter but the thing is that you need to adjust it you can't just take umamus take the best parts out of it and hope that yeah this hope for the best yeah yeah that don't work unfortunately but yeah the team made the valiant effort anyway um yeah so what's happening here let's play and I'll comment and you'll see how why big and deep this whole thing is so we start at the home screen and we go straight to career The whole one run works on the premise

that we are training the our horse girl for three years if we are successful. So currently there's an event called ura finale which is the main opening global launch event. It's basically carrier mode play play button like there's no others but the thing is that these events have different conditions which require different things and we have different. So immediately first thing is you select your horse girl and you see a lot of these stats and everything and what what's happening. It took me a week literally a week of explanation videos or reading guides online like to really grasp. I finished the game like I finished one play through. Okay. I I made it to the finals I won. So that's like one of my biggest achievements here because it's just very very hard to even understand what you're doing. Once you understand that it comes very simple but that's like the you know the usual Asian game setup that's why it's not working well in the west because they didn't really bother with this part of teaching you that well yeah how to it's too complex for and we're talking

about it all the time it's too complex complexity ramps up very very fast so it's hard it's like hard even if you understand it you see you you see all those stats it's like nope see you later exactly by information overload immediately so what we're going to do here is we're going to run a run with Sakura Bakshin because she's the cookie cutter character currently regarding winning because she's just so easy to play because each of these horse girls basically require a completely different setup and different play style in order for them to be successful. I'll I'll demonstrate. So Sakurabakshin is basically a sprinter. These girls or these horse girls are divided by their ability to run different distances of tracks. So you see she's great at sprint. She's worse than Mile. She's even worse at medium. And long again, she's bad. If we go to TM Oprah, for instance, the current banner character, she's very bad at sprint, but she's very good at long. So

immediately, okay, so I would need a different play style, different stats, different support cards, different like everything, which is one of the mechanics that think of it like an elemental system, but on steroids basically. So this this is one of the things that assures that each of these ones will require you to use different strategy even to play through not only to adjust to the conditions that will be done during the run style that goes the same. It's pretty much how best positioned they are when they're kind of going into the race. if they're racing best in front, if they pace chasers, so like their first are somewhere in the middle, then they chase for the last 200 meters, or they're late runners or end runners. Like again, depends on the horse girl and depends on the style. Uh track, there are just two one turf and dirt. Again, this is literally imagine it like tennis. So you have like US Open and Grand Slam and French Open. Those are different terrains. This is exactly the same. like

Nadal is better in French Open and whatever is better in US open. Also order during football if it's raining you need different types of boots. Exactly. So exactly the same and you see how all of these parameters adds a lot more kind of skill cap or complexity into it. So you need to understand all of these suddenly it becomes very very hard and complex. So we're going to start with Sakura Bakino and then we going to start to select the parents. We're going to include guest. Yes. So we are going to start to select legacy umamus and these are the images of previous runs actually. So all of these that you see here like for instance tm opera here these was her kind of a legacy umamus and now she's mine and it's like think of it like a hereditary thing because what happens I have no [ __ ] idea what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, basically you see that they are now behind her here somewhere

here. Sure. And what happens is that you literally like it looks like breeding but it's not breeding. It's basically inspiration or whatever. What happens is that throughout the run there are events when your horse girl gets inspired and she pretty much gets stuff those inspiration from those two and you need to choose the right ones. So you gap. Okay. So for instance, what it does is that I should put like some of those that are best for her because they are doing something different than her for instance. So she inherits something that she never can gets in the normal play through because again her parent was graded long. She's graded sprint. She never will have the possibility to get like good I don't know long abilities but because of the parent legacy thing whatever. And keep in mind that in order to get these, you need to finish runs. Those are my finish runs or my friends finish runs. Social helper mechanics are super strong in this game as usual in

Japanese. You love it. Can't say there's no social mechanics. They're all of them. Okay. So, now that we have this, then we go into cards. And this is this is even more weird now because when I when I What? This is the main monetization of the game. Actually, support cards are the chase cards, not the horse girls. I was like, what? Because if we go here into the gacha, like let me let me just first finish this selection. And yeah, let's see what we got here. Maybe somebody has suzuka. Okay, this this better because it's fully upgraded. You see it's five like whoever is this like this is a whale card basically. So we need all of the speed cards that we can get and I want to filter now.

We can get one more. So we can going to get this one. You by the way cannot get the card of your horse girl. That's also very interesting because these cards are all the horse girls. For instance, this is Vodka. If I would be racing with vodka, I cannot get her as a support card. That's that's also very very interesting. So, one more. One more. Yeah, let's get uh Dear listeners, this is exactly why. So, what these cards do, there are these attributes and it's important to stack the right attributes and right card for your card because we have Sakurabak, you know, she's basically stack speed forever. So, we need speed cards. If I would have TM Opera, the other girl, she would need different cards. Basically, what these cards do, they give her stats and they also give her where we are. Okay, I think I can show you. Yeah, so they give her support effects and they can give her skills that I can then

learn and use during my playthrough. So, it's literally again like choosing a gacha that will maybe trigger during my play through. But he's confused. Yeah. Like, where's the Julia Roberts confused meme? Yeah. So, what's happening here? I'm selecting support cards that should hopefully give me the chance to get the thing that I need during my playthrough. It's all a chance. Everything's random, so that's great. But it's like directed random this way. So we start the career. Yeah. Everything's there. We're great. And what's going to happen is that immediately there's a lot of these like I think we can skip this one anyway. Uh yeah, quick mode settings just because we want to cover as much as possible. I'm going to use the shorten all events. It's going to be turbo mode.

So everything is going to be as fast as possible. You can have all the dialogues. Do this. You can play forever. We're going to do turbo mode. Just shorten all events. You'll see how it will now feel. So there we go. She got immediately inspired by the legend UMass and get some stuff from her. And now the show really starts. So there we go. You see how suddenly everything will be super fast. So what's happening is now we have to get to actually play the game. This is the actual core. So finally it starts. It only took us 22 minutes to actually get to the point where we can actually play the game. Perfect. Just in. Okay. So what happens here is that we have immediate goal running Junior make the debut. So we have all of these where are all these races and and fans I think somewhere else like the achievements. I need to find those. Anyway, debut race basically. So, we need to train her as best as possible for the

first race. We have 11 turns, basically 11 days left. Each of these buttons except the skills uh consumes a turn. So, we have this energy, which is her energy, like how much stuff she can do during the day. And she has normal mood. That's it. And these are her skills. You see that they're capped. They can go to like 1,200. And currently they are there because I know this is Sakurabachino. We're going to train speed. So we need to literally train speed. So we have 0% failure to train speed once which we're why would you need to train speed when everything else is not even close. So train the other stuff. No. What do you mean not even close? Stamina. Well, you need to train everything because the stamina is the the worst attribute in here. So I would love to Yeah. So you don't really train all around her. You train her to be exceptional in one stat. Okay. Okay. Because because we're playing Sakura Bakino. If we were playing different

horse girl, she would have different guide and different pretty much setup. You can also see here in I think I need to click her. But basically, yeah, full stats here. So you see growth rate on those stats. her speed grows 20% more than all her other stats. So, it's because we selected that that's that's what we but there will be different things along the way that we'll need need to make decision. So, still we're like 0% again we'll stack speed that that's we're going to do super fast because again we up turns are going man again see speed again how many guides you have have you read like during the Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought twoour videos. Yeah. So we continue. You see her energy is getting low. So what happens here now? There's a 24% failure rate actually for me to fail the whole thing. She can get injured. Her mod will get bad and we would need to sacrifice turn in infirmary to rest. Yeah. So we put it to rest. Before I do

that, you see that there are these icons between the skills. This is super important. So it means that if I train some of these things, the support card girls are getting more to their friendship. This is even more important because for instance wit can be trained kind of universally without it actually resto energy and it doesn't have that and I really want to do this now because it rolled the the role that if I do this I will get bonus friendship to all girls. why I'm getting friendship to these girls and why I'm increasing these stats because if the stats get high, they're going to give me skills, the ones that we are chasing after. So, we're going to continue that. Um, again, we really need to speed. So, we're going to rest her for now. Yeah, we get the energy back again. Sacrifice a turn.

Some kind of events. There we go. Yeah, there's a notification. See? So, there's a notification which means I will get the skill from the support card as a hint. You still I'm listening. Yeah. Yeah, I'm listening. Let's go. So, we did the training. There we go. And there's the skill. Lay low. So, if I want to get the skill now, I need to go to skills and there's the skill and I need to pay for it to buy it. So, because you know all the skills that the support cards can give you, you select the good support cards that complement her build and so on so forth. We're still catching up. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So, we can we continue more and more speed probably. It's always good to kind of check if like somebody is like against friendship stack or whatever because you want eventually you want to build friendship with all your support cards and then you pretty much continue. Yeah, I guess more speed. She she's like very very easy because some cards like let's say the opera that

I still haven't managed to win. She's very hard to build at least for me as a beginner. But Sakurbakino is like the beginners friendly horse girl because you just stack speed. That's like eventually the run that I win with her I got like SS like 1,00 something speed. It's just like super fast. Okay. Uh one more speed. You already see that the speed growth has increased to level two. But also notice that other stats are growing as we're training speed. Also, power is growing a little bit, giving us skill points. Different of these have different modifiers. Like this is this is pretty much the core of the game. Why it's so genius because you see that every decision matters. Yeah, it matters. Like you remember as we were talking about the skill calculator with or skill randomizer with wittle defender like how these get learned like this is like 10 times more complex to kind of choose because there's a random chance on me failing the thing. There's a random role on the friendship girls appearing within each turn on different skills. There's a

random chance of me like I don't doing events or triggering stuff that's behind the scenes and stuff like that. So, let me finish speed and then we're going to do an actual race. So, yeah, it's race day. There we go. We get some more stuff. And now before the race, you always go to buy skills. So, we're going to buy something for sprinter. Sprinting gear. When the way ahead is jammed early race, you have the sprinting gear. If you scroll down here, sprinting. Yeah. Yeah. Flighting on straight. Yeah, that's definitely what we want. So, we're going to take that one. And now we're going to go to race. If you don't win now, we end up the like immediately the podcast. Yeah. Like we just you just Yeah, we just end there. Nothing else matters. You see that we are now selecting. This is also very

important because there will be moments when you need to select from different ones. And you see these are the ones that good for her because it's sprint and surf. We get 700 more fans for that. And that's it. So let's go. Yeah, we want to race. And then we want to select the right stuff here. So this is the strategy and we can either select pace front late or end. See how this is the thing we were talking about like how she's good with. So we're going to leave it at pace. That's okay. Uh her mood is good. Aptitude again, pretty good. Stats are stats. Nothing really to it. The judges call. So there's literally a judges call telling you how much like bets are placed on you that you win. So if you see circles, it's great. If you don't see circles, you bet. You can also check the other runners that are going against you. Those are still like first rate. Those are like them horse. Not the ones that you that I

showed you like name after your horses. Yeah, for sure. There's like the stats. So, let's go. Once I press it, no control anymore. What we can do is just speed up the animation. So, everything's kind of decided now. It's by the way super good. It's uh see number one favorite. We there was there. It's super intense by the way. like there's a fully voiced commentary like you know NHL or whatever people are literally screaming their lungs out as as as these are kind of going around the thing. You can skip it a little bit if you go with the like skip button but the whole thing takes like nearly 5 minutes so not going to bother that. So we're at the start. There we go. And you see how it goes. And pretty much again, we can speed it up to the last 400 m if you really want. I could speed that even further if you want, but just want to show you like how

how it This is usually the part where skills skills get triggered. You would see that it's again a chance skills. Even though I bought them, it's still a chance that she will even trigger them. So, it's not that like again you are 100% sure. Yeah. Okay. So, because she's so fast, she won like very very easily. And then we continue. Great. We get more fans. Fans are super important. I'll get to it later. Watch concert. Okay. Yeah. And that would be a concert actually because Oh, yeah. I hope so. We'll watch the next one. So you see we we did our goal run Junior make debut and this is basically her goals for the whole career season. Each horse girls have different goals because different tracks like you know if if I put them long horse girl or like long distance horse girls she won't be put on sprint tracks like Sakura yeah plays first in sprinters whatever

different setup. So imagine that basically with each horse skill, you're playing kind of a different game literally a little bit. Yeah. Okay. Because you need to adjust to that setup. So we're moving on. Uh we have eight turns to our next race and we need to use them as much as possible. So there's an event triggered by vodka which gave us a skill. Yeah, that's that's I know I know it says the real name of the horse. It's fine. Just funny. Just funny. So So we're continuing then to stack speed. That's basically what we do the best. Uh you need to you see your place top five. It's actually a little bit lenient in the beginning. It's like top three, top five and eventually the later races will be top one until you hit the career and then you go to finals. Finals are just four races. All you need to be top top one. That's it basically. Yeah, we're going to rest for now because we don't want to really push it. Maybe I can push it later to like show you how it how bad it feels or whatever. Yeah, vodka is going to be increased

here. Oh yeah, we still definitely want that. And we continuing to increase her speed more and more. These events, by the way, they are specific for each horse girls that you see there. There's literally a list of those. And each of these options have different times. The recommendation that I got because I don't want to check like every single one of them is like always select the top option which because it's safe option. You can select different ones and stuff can go bad. I mean really bad like she can get hurt so on so forth. You don't want that. Um, okay. We continuing speed still on zero failure. That's great. Moving ahead. More speed. Yeah, maybe we won't. Or maybe let's try. Let's see. Yeah. So, that success. It was a risky move, but still now it' be risky move is a 20 25% failure. It's fine, man. I had 1% failure. I literally had 1% failure as she went infirmary. broke her leg or something. Finally, finally happening to you as

well, not you lucky bastard. Always. So, you see now that we have like nearly zero energy, like we would be really pushing our luck if you want to like increase the skills. Like weight is always the least, but it's still not bulletproof. So, so you go to rest. If the recreation button, I would press this if her mood would be bad. So, it means that she would get some disease or whatever. Something something like that's the thing. I can also race. By the way, in the meantime, for instance, there are these races that are there to get fans because at some point there are criteria that like, you know, entry criteria meet, but sometimes it's like get 10,000 fans. If you don't have those, you lose basically the whole progress. You need to just accumulate those from winning those races. So, we're going to rest a little bit more and then train again speed because we are just following very easy guide. Very easy guide. Yeah, like like you see how easy it is. But normally I would just go and like check all of these to see like the friendship

options which is the best one for me. It takes like a lot of time to actually decide what to do. Are we going to risk it? Uh yeah, let's There we go. 6%. Jesus Christ. Play that slot machine with Yeah. So we're going to select some more skills. Hopefully we have Yeah, there's a leg legendary one. like we really need to use it maybe. Okay, let's save for that one for later. So, we're continuing here and see you can only compete in goal race. These would be the other races I showed you for the fans. So, we're going to go to G2. It's actually the one of the main tracks there. And yeah, I think the competition is going to be a little bit bigger now. I would guess so. Or not. It doesn't m doesn't matter. Yeah. Let's go. What happens if you lose? So there's multiple options that happens if you lose. There's the clock consumable which can rewind back time and you can

race again. Yeah. And you make different choices I guess. No, you don't make different choices. You already are racing. Oh, so only race. You have another chance then. Yeah. Okay. The chance. Okay, fine. No choices. Amazing. So somebody took us on. Let's see. That's interesting. H she she's she's still see now she's she's popping up skills. Let's see how this result. But yeah, if you lose she she's third. She's third. I know she she's getting there. Is it worse now? Fourth. Fifth. Yeah, this would be even worse probably. O fifth. Jeez. We need to finish fifth. Yeah, which is fine, I guess. You see how There we go. Oh, nice. Okay. Strong finish. Now it's better. But it's going to be second. But you see how engaging is just to watch. Yeah, of course. 100%. It's like because the chance mechanic is taken to the limit. So it's always kind of great. I think it was because it was raining or something. So didn't didn't

that well so many excuses. Yeah. So if you lose, you can use the clock consumable to run the race again. There's one free per day and you can use two more as your consumables. And after three times if you all of them lose you is end. So that's there. By the way, there's the concert mechanic. They also have this. It's done kind of interesting because in Japan there are a lot of these idol games which are you pretty much being a manager of a pop group. How it works here is that there's a concert being played after every race and the horse girl that wins is the main singer and then from second third whatever plays are like accompanying her in the the play through. So, let's me skip that. And then what we're going to do again, get some more goals. And then again, we need to run run in

string s. I think that's even like participation race. And we lost mate. It was so overwhelming. Then it just disconnected me. Don't worry, I waited. It's fine. It's okay. It's okay. You should you should continue. Anyway, so what happens here is basically stuff continues like this for 3 years. Won't finish it all basically. But you go, you train and there's like a little bit more and more different choices. And at some point these became very hard to do.

I'm not sure what's happening with the the Riverside. It's pushing me out because of the server issues. Anyway, continue. Just continue. Yeah. Um, yeah. I just wanted to show you like how it actually looks. We would need to run this. Now, we need to run string s then be top five in our s yada yada yada yada. Then you see like then comes the hard races with like first place required to even move and then it would go to finale. So that that's there. Yeah, you've seen most of the mechanics here like what's happening. There's events there even like secret mini gamess that can trigger with like crane machines. There's currently a big quest for it. Everybody's Yeah, there's lots of interesting stuff that can happen here. If I would Let's rest her. If I would max out my friendship with these

other horse girls, they would start kind of giving more stats and the skills and again I could flesh this out. So on so I was expecting you say they they start dating. Uh I think that's mechanic outside the core but there there's also something like this. I understand. Anyway, let's get back to the core. For the purposes of this podcast, let's assume we won everything. Of course. So what what are you going to do then next or what can you do that is that they get they get here put here as veteran umamus. So for instance this is my Sakurachino that won the the finals champion. This is how it would end basically. So see how her speed is so big and everything and now you can use it to the rest of the game in these other things and also as a legacy kind of inspiration parent basically. So if we go here into let's say daily races like this is literally like the daily quest thing you would

need to take. Uh yeah we don't really have str but whatever won't won't do good in this. Yeah. So we go here and again see you're selecting only from the ones that already race not not the ones. So same same exact thing here. She would go race without any training and so much. Yeah. And then yeah, the competition gets like quite big. You see how it goes and we probably lose horribly because she's not really well suited for mile racer races. Depends. But at least you see like how it how it looks in like very overcrowded and uh yeah. So yeah, she's 50. It's okay. See how how they are popping up all those skills. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go with the Those are all all player player, not like random ones. Not bots.

Not as synchronous, but player player driven still. Okay. So, yeah. No chance, man. No [ __ ] chance. No [ __ ] chance. Oh, wait. She's She's not the M. So, you do this. This is like one of the other things that you do instead of just like getting stuff. But the other thing is there's PvP which is the team trials. So this is again a collectiondriven driver mechanic where you have a team race and you need to select a team of five. Oo actually. And there are events when you need to select three teams of five. So you need a lot of them. What happens here is that they get pitched against each other. and you just see the results. You can do five of these during the day, but again, it's like not that it's I

think it's completely okay to play the game even without it to be honest. But again, just less rewards and less stuff. So that's there. Yeah, that's still waiting for the the actual motivation. Why should I play the game? Because it's so engaging when you need to select those choices. Maybe, maybe. Let's talk monetization more. Yes, please. Yeah. So, there are like six gachas basically. Oo, that's a lot. Yeah, that's really interesting because they have paid only gachas. So, what they have here is pretty much like two offers. Like those are kind of offers basically. Yeah. Because you have one SSR guarantee for temple but I cannot I cannot buy it because I have only free crystals. You need paid crystals like paid hard currency of course which is never going to happen on your account. Anyway, so they have this here and it's kind of similar to your worst games like

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they have there's guarantees super rare aspool which is not super super rare, not the highest quality, but yeah, that's there. And yeah, you just collect these and get more and more of these in a way to again suit different needs of those races. So even currently let's say we have the URA finale can cannot show you but basically the event itself has some requirements and the races has some stuff and different girls different horse. Yeah. Yeah of course. Yeah. Then we have the club mechanic which is the guild mechanic basically. Nothing really to it. So, you want to have as many friends as possible because it's, by the way, very hard to get the best friends because if I would go here, for instance, into the team trials and I would check like who's the top top guys in the team. For instance, this guy, he's first. I Okay, he's first. So, I want to be friend with him. Why not? I can be

friend with him. Okay, that's that's a great thing. But but I'm guessing the second one won't be that easy. Yeah. See, so most of these people like it never happened to me. I was able to friend the first one, but like most of these people you can't because they have already maximum followers because they have upgraded cards and everybody wants to use those. Yeah, everyone wants them. Okay. Not only the cars, also the legacy girls, you can use those. Oh yeah, that's why chose guest like it's like a game of musical chairs. Everybody wants to immediately have all the best friends. Yes, of course. Yeah. So, that works perfectly for them as usual. That that's that's the good uh you can upgrade the cards and upgrade the girls to have better limits, not better starting positions. So, if I go here again, I can level up the support cards. I can uncap them, which basically mean upsord copies, which means that they can go higher, give you more stats. Typical gacha stuff. Basically,

leveling up. Yeah, leveling up means they're stronger and whatever or more stats. Of course, if I go to horse girls trainee, the potential levels basically increase. They unlock different skills that they can get immediately that I can then buy and stuff like that. But as I said, sport cars are much more important than the thing because again, you can win the race with like one star horse anyway. Yeah, I saw that. Okay. Yeah. So, so it's it's not a problem. It's just they offer different play styles and it's more also for PvP because in PvP again you need different styles and stuff like that. There's story. There's a lot of story actually. It plays like full-fledged anime actually. So if I go Yeah, let's go into something that actually looks like an episode. By the way, always asks you if you want to have it landscape or portrait because the main core is usually portrait but they want to give the race landscape to really feel. So that's there. And uh you are also asked if you

want to download or not download the voice over which you definitely want. Yeah. Because it's all Japanese. Yeah. And then comes the actual thing which is Yeah. It it like literally is like an anime. There was on mobile I think 5 gig download. Yeah. I'm not joking. To get even this thing running. So similar to like Hong Kong style against Impact. It's like fully fledged anime. Uh, so fully animated, everything it's it's there. So nice. They they have it there. By the way, the whole franchise have like five or three seasons of main anime and like three or four five spin-offs. Like they have the movie I think later last year or somewhere there. So yeah, it's it's in Japan. It's like very very staple franchise. Yep. So that's there. There's the story. On

top of story, you have event stories and the character stories which you need to level characters. Never ending content. Yeah. Yeah. There's so much. And we haven't even talked about the event stuff. So currently there's the dashing towards your dreams event which can give you the special week horse girl. So, there's the story that unlocks. There's the event reward points that you need to play in order to get the where is it? The SSR card. Here she is thousand which I have. Okay. Then the the gacha thing where she kind of rolls and spins and does literally you need to fill in the bingo card. So, that's there. There's event missions which are kind of similar to the ones that that are the daily missions. And then there's the where's the main mechanic? Yeah, the special missions which is like the normal daily main titles and stuff like that. So, you know, your typical kind of gacha based stuff. But really the the beauty of it is that how it all kind of complements

and fulfills each other. My previous runs affect my further runs. My current runs are again done by all the cards. And if I would really play it as like really really played and not speeding it up, I would really reconsider every choice because I showed you the part where it's kind of easy winning because top five, top three, top something, but later down top one is is different beast. Yeah, top one is different beast. So it's done super well and as I said, I haven't seen any rog light on rogite game on the market using these mechanics. So both the person who devised the derby owners club on Sega machines and the one that then mutated to this are both geniuses in my opinion. Like it's just so smooth and so well kind of told out how all the interactions of the rog light mechanics and how random the run is and that's the most interesting part. It's like so random that you never know what's going to happen and you really never know. That's why you sell the clock. Yeah, that's why I sell the clock also because Sen goes fell like after so much

time like you that Yeah. man like Yeah, for sure. So, uh yeah, I'm still eagerly waiting for somebody from the west to kind of uh yeah, streamline this. No, streamline. Use this basically use this like think of it as like clash golf clash. Like we're waiting basically for the golf clash version of it. It's like take the meta, take the systems and put it in a different setup and make millions with it because this is by the way not the first time I was asked by ei some of my clients or friends to deconstruct the game for them. big clients, big big names because they they they see the revenue. They see the potential of this engine. Everybody sees the revenue. Yeah. Yeah. So, I don't think it's going though like it's going to increase the revenue that much by like just like it's nice to have. Yeah. It's nice to have. It's it's nice to have. Nice for the fans and that's it. And the game as it is, it's great. If you are a big fan of this, yeah, you play it. You speak Japanese. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. You're playing the Japanese server anyway. Exactly. Exactly. So, so this is not for

the fans. There's literally 40 40 pages long guide on the web where is literally translated telling you where you need to click there. I saw it because people want to play it. I know. So, why not? Yeah, I know. Why not? Yeah. So final recommendation for everyone that thinks that he tries to do game design and rog light design specifically go play go doesn't care they don't like it doesn't care don't like doesn't matter go play it and familiarize yourself with the mechanics that's the most important part okay so give me the screen is actually my part is going to be very quick no [ __ ] sherlock although I was pretty surprised like they're actually running a lot of a lot of channels And most surprisingly, it's uh majority of it's like it's kind of Tik Tok, which is nice, but again, I mean, what else

would you than the trailer? Yeah, you kind of see in here. I mean, just the trailer on Tik Tok, it doesn't matter. 15 second video, it's fine. I mean, there you go. Same thing here. Just a different cut. I just [ __ ] I mean the music I love it. I really love it. When I play the video I was like the Japanese. Oh my god it's amaz it's good. I'm not sure like how is this going to kind of go in. Okay. This is all the same things but there are some some interesting things. Yeah. Yeah. the voiceovers and music in Japanese, it's it's perfect. Completely different. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I even like after after my recent visit in Tokyo, I was like, you know, I can see why this is

working. I actually actually kind like kind of like it. We don't really we are not going to really see many different creatives and videos. And I don't think this is going to be very much like a B check ones like if they're different. Yeah, for sure. Uh, I can just go to Japan here. Oh, there you are. Running some Twitter stuff. Oh, there you go. Completely different setups. Yeah, but like 66 second videos, but still. Yeah, it's complete set up. So, the thing with gacha games and their creatives, I mean, the big gacha games is that they change their creatives based on the banner characters. Sure. Yeah. That's very important for them. Yeah, of course. I mean, they want everybody to just get those. It's like it's only four pages of the gradius. It's not asending all over again. That's basically the new banner character. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And this is what we saw already in the US or like

they also have English versions. It's not as as big of a difference. See there? Go here. See? See what she's wearing? Dress. No. Look closer. It's wedding dress. Wedding dress. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Okay. I'm sorry. Of course it's I mean, sure. That's what I want to say, but I said dress because game. Yeah, but I see. I didn't think that matters that much. Yeah, of course it matters. Okay. Okay. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. Okay. Fine. So, let's actually go. They have all the different networks even in Japan, but let's just go all networks. And I would love to see Apploving in here. But it's just just banners, nothing else. I mean, I don't think they care about the UA that much. The thing is, and yeah, you won't be able to see it here, but the thing is that in Japan, there's a shitload of offline marketing, metro station, buses,

on the streets, everywhere. You can't escape mobile games in Japan, like Yes. in real world. Especially the train station as well. Everywhere. Yeah. I say the piano music comics in Japanese comics. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. It doesn't matter for me. It's the same thing. It's the same thing. I I'm very ignorant. Not not Yeah, exactly. I'm sorry. I didn't want to offend anyone. I didn't want to offend anyone. Okay. Yeah. I mean, like that's pretty much it, man. Yeah. I don't think I don't think I I have the final thing for those that uh went Facebook went this far. Yeah. I mean, congratulations to you. You have won the the prize for the best [ __ ] fan of the of the whole of century. Yeah. Okay. Let's see. I mean, they are

running something, but it's like do you want to bet like this is going to end like the spending like like within couple of months? Well, no, it's not going to end. It's going to be, you know, up and down based on gacha cycles. Okay. So, you Okay. And and this is normal behavior for these games. Like they they go in big spikes because everybody rolls the gacha and then they wait for the next one and then another spike comes in. Like every game is retargeting by revenue or downloads. You mean downloads? I mean like in terms of the No, I didn't mean like spike revenue will spike. Yeah. I didn't mean like the the game is going to end like the the UA and overall like spending and advertising is going to end especially online. I guess it's going to be boosted during like new new gacha cycle or something or new new events. Yeah. Yeah. Like Yeah. One scale. This how that's even how it works originally in Japan. Of course. Just the same kind of music from the first

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, it's kind of nice, but like four videos again like thank you very much. Yeah, but at least they're trying different things rather than just Facebook only, which is nice. Okay, that's that's pretty much it. Yeah, let let me let me do the Yeah, sure. And uh Go for it. So, this is the game called Champions. Yeah. How can you even compare like this? Yeah. Now, now you can understand what I understood last time. I mean, it's exactly the same kind of speed things. Yeah. Heel. Yes, I know. Yeah. Exactly the same thing. But the horse looks like it's [ __ ] I mean, seriously. Look. Short legs. What the [ __ ] is this? I know. The guy is bigger than the horse. Yeah. I mean, come on. You can't do better than this. Just wait for the race. Oh, no. Please. No.

Like as I said the guys like sending regards to my friends at small giant like they put a valiant effort. Yes. I think it was good effort because they were going the right direction. Problem. Yeah. But this game is not live anymore. No, it's dead. It's dead. It's dead. It's dead. They're going for the right direction because they are the masters of taking stuff from Japan and adjusting to the west. But I guess they chew a little bit bigger bite than they are used to this time. Translating puzzles and dragons to empires and puzzles didn't involve wifuss. Yes, exactly. Yeah. So which is integral part of that game. Yeah. Which is integral part of that game and especially the mechanic and you see how much history was put behind umamusum with real horses and everything. This is like puzzle dragons doesn't have that. A real horse is just put the [ __ ] real horse in this one as well. I mean not just like a shortlegged horse. Yeah, we could also have that. I don't know. But as I said for me, oh whatever. Yeah. Who am I? What's really important all all of this and now you can see it in its full glory

because it's stripped to the barebones is this system is this system of these train things and and like these three menus. That's that's the genius of that system on Rogue Light Run. Fully automated by the way. So that's there. Okay. Best of luck to anyone who tries to do it. I'm cheering for you. Best of luck who actually can want to play the game even. That's like that's a big big task. Yeah, we should do like a competition. Whoever is able to build the like select channel the finale URA finale like Okay. Yeah. So, post your screenshot if you can do it. Oh, please do. Yeah, please do. I'm definitely not going to post any screenshots. I I can tell you that. I can tell. Maybe I will try. Maybe I'll try after all like the hour of of you talking about it. I I'm a little bit closer to downloading the game, but only a little. No, it's it's me. Yeah, I I now I can actually understand like why you actually like it that much. Listeners, thank you very much for for joining us for this hourong episode about umamus pretty derby. It was a

pretty derby and please join the Slack channel. Share all the comments you want, please just put them under the under the YouTube video or even Spotify or just um in our Slack channel so we have a an interesting discussion and see you next time. Yeah. Byebye. race results. I'm waiting for them. Oh, yeah. I'll see you. Bye-bye. [Music]